Adelaide Conference

Literacy WorkshopWhole-School Literacy and the Lightning Literacy Toolbox

Friday, July 8, 2016

The Dynamic Literacy Project © 2016 (Laurence Lee)

Workshop Outline

• Welcome

• Part 1: Key Concepts

• Part 2: Towards Complexity

• Part 3: Building Fluency and Sophistication

• Conclusion

Workshop Format

• Interactive Workshop with Time Limitations

• Welcome and Part 1 (10 minutes)

• Part 2 (12 minutes)

• Part 3 (12 minutes)

• Conclusion (6 minutes)

Part 2 and Part 3 Format

• Brainstorming (3 minutes)

• Introductory Presentation (3 minutes)

• Open (Q&A) Discussion (2 minutes)

• Textual Analysis (2 minutes)

• The Creative Melting Pot (2 minutes)

Welcome to the Workshop

What’s Your Journey?

The Water Diviner• Russell Crowe’s The Water Diviner Trailer https://youtu.be/JL3WU3fMc1U

“I think I can… I think I can…”

Part 1:

Key Concepts and Principles

• The Continuum - Towards Complexity

• The Concrete-to-Abstract Continuum

• The Big Picture versus The Details

• Concepts versus Facts and Everything In Between

• The Knowledge Taxonomy

Part 2: Towards Complexity

• Brainstorming: What strategies do you already use to push student literacy

along the continuum towards complexity?

Presentation

• The Importance of Conceptual Thinking and Moving Towards the Abstract

• Examples: The Train That Could and The Water Diviner

• The Knowledge Hierarchy/Pyramid: Concepts versus Details

• The Role of the Knowledge Taxonomy (Facts, Time Sequences, Cause-and-

effect, Processes, Episodes, Concepts)

• General-to-Specific Rule / Abstract-to-Concrete Rule

The Knowledge Taxonomy

Pushing the Big Picture – Key Concepts

Exploiting Cause-Effect Relationships and

Process Patterns

Grounding the Argument in History – Key

Episodes

Open Discussion (Q&A)

Textual Analysis

The General-to-Specific Rule and the Abstract-

to-Concrete Rule

The Creative Melting Pot

• How could you incorporate the Knowledge Taxonomy and other tools into

the classroom?

Part 3: Building Fluency and Sophistication

• Brainstorming: What literacy tools and tricks do you already teach to launch

student writing into the realm of fluency and sophistication?

Enhancing Essays – Beyond Content and

Structure

• Moving Towards Complexity – Nominalisation

• Building Fluency - Phrasal Verbs, the Participial Phrase & Adjectival Phrases

• The Subtle Power of “Metaphor Speak”

Presentation

• Nominalisation

• “Metaphor Speak”

• The Participial Phrase & Adjectival Phrases (“-ing” form & “-ed/n” form)

• Macro-genres

• Voice & Humour / Wit & Satire

• Phrasal Verbs

The Subtle Power of “Metaphor Speak”

Open Discussion (Q&A)

Textual Analysis

Moving Towards Complexity - Nominalisation

Building Fluency – Phrasal Verbs, the

Participial Phrase and Adjectival Phrases

The Creative Melting Pot

• How could you incorporate these Fluency Signatures and other tools into the

classroom?

Conclusion

• Whole School Approaches

• Next Steps & The Journey Beyond

Whole School Approaches

Next Steps & The Journey Beyond